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Date Sent: 2012-09-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, August 31, 2012 PM edition |
TSA Denies Stonewalling Nude Body-Scanner Court Order
Stop the Revolution and Start the Evolution -- 08-31-12 -- Carla Gericke - Andrew Strmic - Adam Kokesh (MP3 & Video LOADED) -- World food prices jumped 10 percent in July --
Hookah Effects as Harmful as Cigarettes, Study Finds -- Hantavirus
Deaths in Yosemite: More Mice May Be to Blame -- Video: Maryland Student
Hovers 8 Feet High in Human-Powered Helicopter... -- How the U.S. Fights the Zeta Cartel, From Spies to Sanctions -- Bungling Cyber Spy Stalks Iran -- Top 10 reasons to get your money back from Ron Paul Inc -- Soldiers suspected of plotting to kill Obama face death penalty --
The great and powerful Oz has spoken... -- Report from Arizona delegate
at the RNC... -- Five LAPD officers under investigation in stomping
death of woman -- Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA -- Anti-Iranian Rage -- Waging War on Leaks -- Toyota Contractor
Accused of Sabotaging Company Network, Stealing Data -- Warrantless Wiretap Victims Ask Court to Reconsider Letting Feds
Spy Illegally -- Army Doubles Down on ‘Garbled, Ineffective’
Next-Gen Radios -- Qatari Gas Company Hit With Virus in Wave of
Attacks on Energy Companies -- Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S.
Drone Strikes -- South African Scientists Claim Breakthrough
Drug Cures All Strains of Malaria
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club meets tomorrow!; Tesla Motors at the Scottsdale mall
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA Denies Stonewalling Nude Body-Scanner Court Order
08-30-2012
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David Kravets via WIRED.com
The Transportation Security Administration denied it was stonewalling a federal appeals court’s year-old decision demanding the agency hold public hearings concerning the so-called nude body scanners installed in U.S. airport security checkpoints
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Feature Article • Events: Arizona
Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday
Powell Gammill
Ernie has taken an active passion in building his own modern battery storage technology on the cheap to store electricity using carbon nanotubes that he is making himself :) / Marc Victor Libertarian for Az U.S. Senate shares 'the plan'
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News Link • Activism
Stop the Revolution and Start the Evolution
08-31-2012
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http://dont-tread-on.me
When you are involved in a long term abusive relationship, at some point the the focus goes from the abuser, to the victims for staying in the relationship so long.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Glass shape influences how quickly we drink alcohol
08-31-2012
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http://www.bio-medicine.org,
Dr Angela Attwood and colleagues from Bristol's School of Experimental Psychology recruited 160 social drinkers aged 18-40 with no history of alcoholism to attend two experimental sessions.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Hantavirus Deaths in Yosemite: More Mice May Be to Blame
08-31-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Susan E. Matthews
Two people have died from the rodent-borne disease called hantavirus after staying in Yosemite National Park, suggesting that the California park hosts many rodents, especially mice, infected with the virus.
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News Link • Events: America
Labor Day: 8 Facts about America's Work Force
08-31-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, David Mielach
As Labor Day approaches, BusinessNewsDaily has compiled a list of facts about the holiday, workers and just what everyone celebrates on the first Monday of September.
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News Link • Inventions
Video: A Body-Cooling Glove Could Give Athletes a Better Boost Than Steroids
08-31-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Colin Lecher
... a body-cooling glove out of Stanford that researchers say might be more potent--and obviously much more legal--than steroids.
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News Link • Communications
For Some Reason Apple Doesn't Want iPhone Users Keeping Tabs on the Drone Wars
08-31-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
An app that alerts users to drone strikes around the world keeps getting denied by the Apple's App Store reviewers, and no one can explain why
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
After Embryo is Washed of Disease, Healthy Purebred Baby Buffalo Born in the Bronx
08-31-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca Boyle
The first “genetically pure” bison produced from a cleansed and transplanted embryo was born in June, officials at the Bronx Zoo announced today. Now the zoo can expand its bison herd with only the purest samples of prairie cows.
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News Link • Inventions
Video: Maryland Student Hovers 8 Feet High in Human-Powered Helicopter...
08-31-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Rebecca Boyle
Records are made to be broken, and a bunch of students at the University of Maryland are smashing the ones they just set earlier this summer.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
As Hurricanes Approach, the Robotic Storm Chasers of the Future Are Ready
08-31-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
Better hurricane predictions require better data--data that only lives at the center of the storm. NOAA is building the robots that will report back from the very eye of the hurricane
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News Link • Drug War
How the U.S. Fights the Zeta Cartel, From Spies to Sanctions
08-31-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Robert Beckhusen
The violence in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon began Tuesday morning and continued into Wednesday.
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Nanoparticles Could Lead to Stronger Drugs, Fewer Side Effects for Cancer Patients
08-31-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Susan Young
A biotech company called Cerulean says its nanoparticle-delivered cancer drugs are better at attacking tumors.
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News Link • Iran
Bungling Cyber Spy Stalks Iran
08-31-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, Tom Simonite
Government departments, banks, and companies that operate critical infrastructure have fallen victim to badly crafted malware known as Mahdi.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Soldiers suspected of plotting to kill Obama face death penalty
08-31-2012
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Rawstory
Three serving soldiers who allegedly set up a militia group within the US army, which plotted to overthrow the government and assassinate President Obama, face the death penalty after they were arraigned on murder charges.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The great and powerful Oz has spoken...
08-31-2012
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www.federalreserve.gov
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Symposium - Jackson Hole, Wyoming
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Five LAPD officers under investigation in stomping death of woman
08-31-2012
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Los Angeles Times
At least 5 Los Angeles police officers are under investigation in the death of a woman who stopped breathing during a struggle that included an officer stomping on her genital area and the use of additional force by others to take her into custody
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA
08-31-2012
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The Guardian
Newly released emails between the New York Times's national security and intelligence reporter, and a CIA spokeswoman: The CIA had evidently heard that Maureen Dowd was planning to write a column on the CIA's role in pumping
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News Link • Transportation
Toyota Contractor Accused of Sabotaging Company Network, Stealing Data
08-30-2012
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Kim Zetter via WIRED.com
A former programmer for Toyota has been accused of sabotaging applications on the car company’s network and stealing data after he was fired from his job last week, according to a civil complaint filed by the company.
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Warrantless Wiretap Victims Ask Court to Reconsider Letting Feds Spy Illegally
08-30-2012
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David Kravets via WIRED.com
A federal appeals court is being asked to reconsider its earlier ruling that the government may spy on Americans’ communications without warrants and without fear of being sued.
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News Link • Military
Army Doubles Down on ‘Garbled, Ineffective’ Next-Gen Radios
08-30-2012
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David Axe via WIRED.com
In key moments during the U.S. Army’s latest war game for advanced communications gear, the troops’ high-tech new radios failed them.
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News Link • Energy
Qatari Gas Company Hit With Virus in Wave of Attacks on Energy Companies
08-30-2012
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Kim Zetter via WIRED.com
The Qatari natural gas company commonly known as RasGas has been hit with a virus that shut down its website and e-mail servers, according to news reports.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
South African Scientists Claim Breakthrough Drug Cures All Strains of Malaria
08-30-2012
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Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.com
Malaria is the scourge of tropical nations, crippling its victims with symptoms like debilitating fever, convulsions and nausea, and killing half a million people annually.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
A Body-Cooling Glove Could Give Athletes a Better Boost Than Steroids
08-30-2012
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Colin Lecher via PopSci.com
Almost all mammals have a network of veins near a hairless part of their skin that controls rapid temperature management--and it's no different for people.
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News Link • Intellectual Property
Can Android Revolutionize Spacecraft Design?
08-30-2012
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Tom Nardi
NASA is planning a fleet of small satellites to demonstrate the ability for Android Nexus smartphones to control spacecraft in low Earth orbit. Could open source software and consumer hardware change the way future spacecraft are designed, and help l
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News Link • Intellectual Property
F-Droid: The Android Market That Respects Your Rights
08-30-2012
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Tom Nardi
"Android’s meteoric rise in popularity is due, in no small part, to the fact it is an open source project."
"F-Droid is an Android repository designed to respect the privacy and rights of its users."
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Opinion • Military
Deciphering Propaganda
08-29-2012
Larken Rose
Have you heard about the "anarchists" attempting to assassinate Obama and overthrow the government? Well, here's how to find the truth beneath the propaganda.
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News Link • Philosophy: Conservatism
There’s no comeback for Russell Pearce " he’s done.
08-29-2012
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Nick R. Martin
Immigration hardliner Russell Pearce’s burning desire to return to office in Arizona got doused with cold water on Tuesday night when he lost the Republican primary for state Senate to a moderate businessman who took a softer tone on immigration.
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News Link • Food
New York Probes Energy-Drink Makers
08-29-2012
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Wall Street Journal
New York's attorney general is investigating whether the multibillion-dollar energy-drink industry is deceiving consumers with misstatements about the ingredients and health value of its products.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Syrian Émigrés Seek Aid in U.S. to Arm Rebels
08-29-2012
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New York Times
From a one-room office in an unfinished glass tower three blocks from the White House, an amorphous network of activists is doing what the Obama administration will not: attempting to arm the rebels trying to overthrow Syria’s government.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
The Triumph of the Reich-Publican Party
08-29-2012
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
The tactics employed by the GOP establishment to isolate, intimidate, and ultimately to expel Ron Paul delegates were the natural product of the party’s totalitarian genetics. Using criminal means to impose a monolithic, top-down process
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Mexico: 2 CIA agents wounded in shooting go to US
08-29-2012
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AP
Mexican officials said Wednesday that two Americans wounded in a shooting attack by federal police on a U.S. Embassy vehicle are employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, and acknowledged they have returned to the United States.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Court: Zimmerman judge should disqualify himself
08-29-2012
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AP
A three-judge panel in Florida has ruled that a former neighborhood watch leader charged in the fatal shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin should be granted a new judge in his case.
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News Link • Drug War
Marines vs. Zetas: U.S. Hunts Drug Cartels in Guatemala
08-29-2012
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Robert Beckhusen via WIRED.com
The war on drugs just got a whole lot more warlike. Two hundred U.S. Marines have entered Guatemala, on a mission to chase local operatives of the murderous Zeta drug cartel.
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Libertarian Marc J. Victor Looks Forward to U.S. Senate Race
08-29-2012
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http://www.victorforsenate.com/
Chandler, Arizona (August 29, 2012) Libertarian candidate Marc J. Victor looks forward to debating the big issues with opponents Flake and Carmona for the U.S. Senate.
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News Link • Transportation
Adaptive Cruise Control Will Change Driving In America
08-29-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Samuel Blackstone
You're going a smooth 55 miles per hour across the George Washington Bridge when you realize you're gaining on the car in front of you.
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News Link • Housing
Facit Homes claims to build world's first "digitally fabricated" house
08-29-2012
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http://www.gizmag.com
Facit Homes claims to be the first company in the world to digitally fabricate a bespoke home on-site.
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Guest Post: In Defense Of Liberty Extremism
08-29-2012
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
It’s a safe statement to make that when Mitt Romney is finally crowned the GOP nominee for president during the Republican National Convention, any vestige of liberty will be firmly wiped away from the ballot box come this November.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Global Demise Of Pension Plans
08-29-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Raúl Ilargi Meijer
We have been saying for a long time that anyone in the western world who's 10-15 years away from collecting their first pension payments, shouldn't expect to get much, if anything, when the time comes.
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News Link • Transportation
The World's First Electric Vehicle Made Of 3D Printed Parts Is Remarkably Fast
08-29-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Alex Davies
The claim that 3D printing is the next trillion dollar industry is backed up by the results of last month's Formula Student 2012, the annual event that challenges engineering students to build and race single-seat cars.
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